2V0-41.24 Question 106
Select 3Your organization is deploying an NSX-T Data Center environment and plans to use an NSX Edge cluster to support north-south traffic. Which of the following functions are provided by the NSX Edge cluster in this scenario?
- A
Facilitates distributed firewalling across the ESXi hosts in the NSX-T environment.
- B
Provides routing and connectivity to external networks for north-south traffic.
- C
Hosts centralized services such as NAT, load balancing, and VPN.
- D
Enables east-west traffic optimization between workloads running in different segments.
- E
Supports tier-0 and tier-1 gateway services for logical routing.
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Correct answers: B, C, E
Explanation
The NSX Edge cluster is a critical component in an NSX-T Data Center deployment, designed to handle north-south traffic and provide centralized services such as NAT, load balancing, and VPN. It also supports tier-0 and tier-1 gateway services for logical routing. While distributed firewalling and east-west traffic optimization are part of the NSX-T architecture, they are not functions of the NSX Edge cluster.
- A. Incorrect.
Facilitating distributed firewalling is a function of the distributed firewall in the NSX-T architecture, not the NSX Edge cluster.
- B. Correct.
The NSX Edge cluster provides routing and connectivity to external networks, which is essential for enabling north-south traffic.
- C. Correct.
Centralized services such as NAT, load balancing, and VPN are hosted on the NSX Edge cluster, making it a crucial component of the architecture.
- D. Incorrect.
East-west traffic optimization is handled by the distributed data plane of NSX-T, not the NSX Edge cluster.
- E. Correct.
The NSX Edge cluster supports tier-0 and tier-1 gateway services, which are integral to logical routing in the NSX-T environment.